Modified dolls, recipe for flash powder found, authorities say

Published: Friday, April 26, 2013 at 07:56 PM.

PANAMA CITY — A Jackson County man allegedly found with a letter addressed to Lucifer and baby dolls with disturbing modifications appeared in federal court Friday on gun and drug charges.

“That will be my goal: pure evil,” the letter read in part.

In the letter addressed to “Oh devil, Oh demon, Oh Lucifer,” Edward Victor Williams apologized for acts of kindness and vowed to be more evil. Authorities said the letter was recovered by federal agents during a search at his home in Jackson County earlier this week. They also found a recipe on the refrigerator for the explosive flash powder used in fireworks and other explosives.

“It was just used in Boston about two weeks ago,” said Whit Hannah, a special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive.

Hannah testified that agents didn’t find any flash powder at Williams’ house during a hearing to determine whether Williams was a danger to the community and subject to pretrial detention or just a guy with a unique sense of humor, as witnesses who testified on Williams’ behalf contended.

Law enforcement officers already were familiar with Williams’ “sense of humor” before they searched his home Tuesday. Williams, who has three prior felony convictions, was arrested in February after he allegedly threatened to kill a game warden at his hunting lease in Jackson County. Agents found methamphetamine, and Williams tested positive for meth when he was arrested again this week, officials said.

When law enforcement searched the leased property, they found several dolls painted and burned and posed in violent sexual positions. Assistant U.S. Attorney Gayle Littleton showed Magistrate Larry Bodiford photographs of several of the dolls.

PANAMA CITY — A Jackson County man allegedly found with a letter addressed to Lucifer and baby dolls with disturbing modifications appeared in federal court Friday on gun and drug charges.

“That will be my goal: pure evil,” the letter read in part.

In the letter addressed to “Oh devil, Oh demon, Oh Lucifer,” Edward Victor Williams apologized for acts of kindness and vowed to be more evil. Authorities said the letter was recovered by federal agents during a search at his home in Jackson County earlier this week. They also found a recipe on the refrigerator for the explosive flash powder used in fireworks and other explosives.

“It was just used in Boston about two weeks ago,” said Whit Hannah, a special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive.

Hannah testified that agents didn’t find any flash powder at Williams’ house during a hearing to determine whether Williams was a danger to the community and subject to pretrial detention or just a guy with a unique sense of humor, as witnesses who testified on Williams’ behalf contended.

Law enforcement officers already were familiar with Williams’ “sense of humor” before they searched his home Tuesday. Williams, who has three prior felony convictions, was arrested in February after he allegedly threatened to kill a game warden at his hunting lease in Jackson County. Agents found methamphetamine, and Williams tested positive for meth when he was arrested again this week, officials said.

When law enforcement searched the leased property, they found several dolls painted and burned and posed in violent sexual positions. Assistant U.S. Attorney Gayle Littleton showed Magistrate Larry Bodiford photographs of several of the dolls.

One was impaled in the pelvic region on a pike painted red. A troll doll had an arrow through it and most of its hair burned away as it hung from a tree. A black baby doll had the mark of the beast scrawled across its head and projectile through one eye as it dangled over a shrine featuring animal bones in the shape of a cross. Some dolls had been enhanced in the genital region.

“Is your brother a devil worshipper?” Littleton asked Darrell Williams, who said the dolls served two purposes.

“First and foremost, they’re his sense of humor,” said Darrell Williams, who works for the Department of Corrections in Marianna. He said the dolls also serve as “no trespassing” sign of sorts, designed to make unauthorized visitors to the property uncomfortable.

Edward Williams, who apparently goes by Vic, was arrested after the encounter in February after investigators found 53 marijuana plants, a single-shot, high-powered deer rifle and some ammunition in a small pond on the property. Law enforcement also found two black powder muzzle loaders, but convicted felons are permitted to carry those. He bonded out of jail the next day.

Waylon Graham, Williams’ attorney, yawned as Littleton showed photographs of the dolls. He argued that Williams isn’t charged with worshipping the devil or defacing baby dolls, which he described as “a red herring,” and that he was not a flight risk. Littleton countered that Williams is a felon with weapons and constitutes a danger to the community.

“We seek Mr. Williams’ detention not based on risk of flight … but based on danger to the community,” Littleton said.

Bodiford ruled Williams was not a flight risk, but he meets the criteria for a danger to the community and detained him pending trial.

“Let’s get one thing straight,” Bodiford said. “Mr. Williams’ sense of humor is not something I can address. … Some of those exhibits were disturbing. I’m not qualified to address them.”

Littleton said she anticipates a motion to suppress evidence as the case moves toward trial, but she was confident the evidence would be admissible and Williams will be convicted.

“The evidence is strong in this case,” she said.

Williams was indicted April 17 on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.

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